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]]> 12957 Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare includes two quite different stories of romantic love. Hero and Claudio fall in love almost at first sight, but an outsider, Don John, strikes out at their happiness. Beatrice and Benedick are kept apart by pride and mutual antagonism until others decide to play Cupid.]]> 249 William Shakespeare felicitybateson 0 4.06 1598
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]]> 61918816 A novel of terrible first impressions, hilarious second chances, and the joy in finding your perfect match.

Dr. Briana Ortiz��s life is seriously flatlining. Her divorce is just about finalized, her brother��s running out of time to find a kidney donor, and that promotion she wants? Oh, that��s probably going to the new man-doctor who��s already registering eighty-friggin��-seven on Briana��s ��pain in my ass�� scale. But just when all systems are set to hate, Dr. Jacob Maddox completely flips the game . . . by sending Briana a letter.

And it��s a really good letter. Like the kind that proves that Jacob isn��t actually Satan. Worse, he might be this fantastically funny and subversively likeable guy who��s terrible at first impressions. Because suddenly he and Bri are exchanging letters, sharing lunch dates in her ��sob closet,�� and discussing the merits of freakishly tiny horses. But when Jacob decides to give Briana the best gift imaginable��a kidney for her brother��she wonders just how she can resist this quietly sexy new doctor . . . especially when he calls in a favor she can��t refuse.]]> 416 Abby Jimenez 1538704390 felicitybateson 0 romance 4.29 2023
author: Abby Jimenez
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> 37683751
After seventeen years��and countless broken bones and broken promises��she knows her window to compete in figure skating is coming to a close.

But when the offer of a lifetime comes in from an arrogant idiot she��s spent the last decade dreaming about pushing in the way of a moving bus, Jasmine might have to reconsider everything.

Including Ivan Lukov.]]> 493 Mariana Zapata felicitybateson 0 romance 4.19 2018
author: Mariana Zapata
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 4.19
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]]> 56732449 When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos

As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships��but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees.

That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor��and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford's reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. And when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive's career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding. . . six-pack abs.

Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.]]> 356 Ali Hazelwood 0593336828 felicitybateson 0 romance 4.10 2021
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]]> 58690308 One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming....

Nora Stephens�� life is books��she��s read them all��and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.

Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters�� trip away��with visions of a small-town transformation for Nora, who she��s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they��ve met many times and it��s never been cute.

If Nora knows she��s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he��s nobody��s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again��in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow��what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they��ve written about themselves.]]> 377 Emily Henry 0593334833 felicitybateson 0 favorites 4.09 2022
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]]> 25756328 ��I made the wrong choice.��

Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn��t in the mood for Italy��s famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. She��s only there because it was her mother��s dying wish that she get to know her father. But what kind of father isn��t around for sixteen years? All Lina wants to do is go back home.

But then she is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. Suddenly Lina��s uncovering a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries. A world that inspires her, along with the ever-so-charming Ren, to follow in her mother��s footsteps and unearth a secret that has been kept for far too long. It��s a secret that will change everything she knew about her mother, her father��and even herself.

People come to Italy for love and gelato, someone tells her, but sometimes they discover much more.]]> 386 Jenna Evans Welch 1481432540 felicitybateson 0 summer-reads, romance 4.03 2016
author: Jenna Evans Welch
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average rating: 4.03
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]]> 124932739 I Hope This Doesn't Find You is Never Have I Ever meets To All the Boys if Lara Jean wrote hate emails instead of love letters.

Sadie Wen is perfect on paper: school captain, valedictorian, and a "pleasure to have in class." It��s not easy, but she has a trick to keep her model-student smile plastered on her face at all times: she channels all her frustrations into her email drafts. She'd never send them of course -- she'd rather die than hurt anyone's feelings -- but it's a relief to let loose on her power-hungry English teacher or a freeloading classmate taking credit for Sadie's work.

All her most vehemently worded emails are directed at her infuriating cocaptain, Julius Gong, whose arrogance and competitive streak have irked Sadie since they were kids. "You're attention starved and self-obsessed and unbearably vain . . . I really hope your comb breaks and you run out of whatever expensive hair products you've been using to make your hair appear deceptively soft..."

Sadie doesn't have to hold back in her emails, because nobody will ever read them... that is, until they're accidentally sent out.

Overnight, Sadie��s carefully crafted, conflict-free life is turned upside down. It's her worst nightmare -- now everyone at school knows what she really thinks of them, and they're not afraid to tell her what they really think of her either. But amidst the chaos, there's one person growing to appreciate the "real" Sadie -- Julius, the only boy she's sworn to hate...]]> 320 Ann Liang 1338827154 felicitybateson 0 romance 4.17 2024
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]]> 60099660 actually invisible.
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When her parents drop the news that they can no longer afford her tuition, even with the scholarship, Alice hatches a plan to monetize her strange new power��she��ll discover the scandalous secrets her classmates want to know, for a price.
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But as the tasks escalate from petty scandals to actual crimes, Alice must decide if it��s worth losing her conscience��or even her life.

In this genre-bending YA debut, a Chinese American girl monetizes her strange new invisibility powers by discovering and selling her wealthy classmates�� most scandalous secrets.]]> 346 Ann Liang 1335915842 felicitybateson 0 4.01 2022
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average rating: 4.01
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rating: 0
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]]> 223262140 From the no. 1 international bestselling author of Better than the Movies, childhood sweethearts reunite in a hockey-loving town where romance is about to heat up the ice. For fans of Hannah Grace. *Pre-order now!*

From play dates on the playground to sneaking into movie theatres, Dani and Alec were inseparable as kids. Until Dani moved away. Years later, Dani is back in Minnesota, and exited to reconnect with the nerdy and comforting Alec. But teenage Alec is NOTHING like the boy she remembers. He's the hockey STAR in a town where hockey players are worshipped as gods �C and he loves it.?

When?one thing leads to another and Dani and Alec find themselves thrown together and playing the role of boyfriend and girlfriend, ��complicated�� becomes an understatement. In this Minnesota town, hockey may rule, but romance is about to take its place.

A swoony, boy-next-door fake dating romance from the?New York Times?bestseller, Lynn Painter.

?]]> Lynn Painter 1398537888 felicitybateson 0 to-read, romance 4.33 2025
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]]> 218372180 Magic and mayhem collide in beloved bestselling author Lynn Painter��s hilarious middle grade debut, perfect for fans of Sarah Mlynowski and Wendy Mass.

Emma Rockford knows it will take bonafide magic to make middle school everything she wants it to be. Luckily, before Emma��s beloved Nana died, she left detailed instructions on how to access an ancient, secret, magical wishing well. Emma follows each step and plans out every moment��except for the one where the obnoxious new kid, Jackson, tosses in wishes of his own that literally knock her wishes off course. When seventh grade starts, Emma discovers that her wishes are starting to come true, alright. But not for her��for Jackson.?

Which, the two quickly discover, could have disastrous consequences for both of their families, and cost Emma her best friends. Can they set everything straight in time to prevent full-blown catastrophe?

With the trademark wit and heart that have earned her legions of fans, New York Times?bestselling author Lynn Painter delivers a laugh-out-loud story of friendship, family, and wishing��with a delightful dash of magic.]]> 320 Lynn Painter 0316578576 felicitybateson 0 to-read, romance 3.82
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]]> 220155637 A millionaire and a house cleaner are a match maid in heaven in this sparkling new romantic comedy by Lynn Painter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Happily Never After.

As a professional cleaner, Abi Mariano never thought her apartment would have any sort of infestation, but because of a building-wide outbreak, she now needs somewhere to stay for a week. As a part-time student with two jobs, she doesn��t have many options. Then the solution presents itself: the owner of the penthouse she cleans is out of town for the week. She normally wouldn��t consider it, but he��s literally never around (she hasn��t even met him). It goes great��until one morning she finds two strangers in the kitchen. They��re the parents of the penthouse owner and they seem to think they��ve heard all about Abi��not as their son��s maid, but as his girlfriend.

Declan Powell has always put his career first, working his way up to become an executive at his company, but he still has his sights set on the next level. When his parents mention that they met his girlfriend, ��Abby,�� he all but chokes on his escargot. As wonderful as it sounds that she was just darling, he doesn��t actually have a girlfriend��he made her up to get everyone off his back. When Dex finds out who Abi really is, he makes her a proposition: pretend to date him, and he��ll provide everything she needs during their little arrangement. What harm would it do? It��s purely business, no pleasure��right?]]> 354 Lynn Painter 1405959908 felicitybateson 0 to-read, romance 3.92 2025
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]]> 60487511
After agreeing they are absolutely not interested in each other, Jack and Hallie realize they��re each other��s perfect wing-person in their searches for The One. They text each other about their dates, often scheduling them at the same restaurant so that if things don��t go well, the two of them can get tacos afterward.

Spoiler: they get a lot of tacos together.

Discouraged by the lack of prospects, Jack and Hallie make a wager to see who can find true love first, but when they agree to be fake dates for a weekend wedding, all bets are off. As they pretend to be a couple, lines become blurred and they both struggle to remember why the other was a bad idea to begin with.]]> 315 Lynn Painter 0593437292 felicitybateson 0 to-read, romance 3.86 2023
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Now, Bailey and Charlie are still polar opposites, but instead of everything about him rubbing Bailey the wrong way, she starts to look forward to hanging out and gossiping about the waterpark guests and their coworkers��particularly two who keep flirting with each other. Bailey and Charlie make a bet on whether or not the cozy pair will actually get together. Charlie insists that members of the opposite sex can��t just be friends, and Bailey is determined to prove him wrong.

Bailey and Charlie keep close track of the romantic progress of others while Charlie works to deflect the growing feelings he��s developed for Bailey. Terrified to lose her if his crush becomes known, what doesn��t help his agenda is Bailey and Charlie ��fake dating�� in order to disrupt the annoying pleasantries between Bailey��s mom and her mom��s new boyfriend. Soon, what Charlie was hoping to avoid becomes a reality as Bailey starts to see him as not only a friend she can rely on in the midst of family drama��but someone who makes her hands shake and heart race. But Charlie has a secret��a secret that involves Bailey and another bet Charlie may have made. Can the two make a real go of things��or has Charlie��s secret doomed them before they could start?]]> 432 Lynn Painter 1665921234 felicitybateson 0 romance 4.13 2023
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average rating: 4.13
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rating: 0
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]]> 58419108
Bad luck has always followed Olivia Marshall��or maybe she��s just the screw-up her family thinks she is. But when a ��What are you wearing?�� text from a random wrong number turns into the hottest, most entertaining��albeit anonymous��relationship of her life, she thinks things might be on the upswing��.

Colin Beck has always considered Olivia his best friend��s annoying little sister, but when she moves in with them after one of her worst runs of luck, he realizes she��s turned into an altogether different and sexier distraction. He��s sure he can keep his distance, until the moment he discovers she��s the irresistible Miss Misdial he��s been sort of sexting for weeks��and now he has to decide whether to turn the heat up or ghost her before things get messy.]]> 350 Lynn Painter felicitybateson 0 to-read, romance 3.67 2022
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]]> 207293948
Flash forward months later, and Wes and Liz find themselves in college, together. In a healthier place now, Wes knows he broke Liz��s heart when he ended things, but he is determined to make her fall back in love with him.

Wes knows Liz better than anyone, and he has a foolproof plan to win her back with rom-com-worthy grand gestures she loves. Only . . . Liz will have none of it! Wes has to scheme like a rom-com hero to figure out how to see her. Even worse, Liz has a new friend . . . a guy friend.

Still, Wes won��t give up, adapting his clever plans and going hard to get Liz��s attention and win back her affection. But after his best efforts get him nowhere, Wes is left wondering if their relationship is really over for good.]]> 442 Lynn Painter 1665947136 felicitybateson 0 romance 3.98 2024
author: Lynn Painter
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rating: 0
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]]> 55710822 In this rom-com about rom-coms, in the spirit of Kasie West and Jenn Bennett, a hopeless romantic teen attempts to secure a happily-ever-after moment with her forever crush, but finds herself reluctantly drawn to the boy next door.

Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he��s back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar - and maybe snag him as a prom date - even befriend Wes Bennet.

The annoyingly attractive next-door neighbor might seem like a prime candidate for romantic-comedy fantasies, but Wes has only been a pain in Liz��s butt since they were kids. Pranks involving frogs and decapitated lawn gnomes do not a potential boyfriend make. Yet, somehow, Wes and Michael are hitting it off, which means Wes is Liz��s in.

But as Liz and Wes scheme to get Liz noticed by Michael so she can have her magical prom moment, she��s shocked to discover that she likes being around Wes. And as they continue to grow closer, she must reexamine everything she thought she knew about love - and rethink her own ideas of what happily ever after should look like.]]> 356 Lynn Painter 1534467629 felicitybateson 0 romance 4.27 2021
author: Lynn Painter
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 4.27
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]]> 51035594 In this riotous young adult romp for fans of Recommended for You and A Cuban Girl��s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, a teen girl has the worst Valentine��s Day ever��only to relive it over and over again.

After living through a dumpster fire of a Valentine��s Day, Emilie Hornby escapes to her grandmother��s house for some comfort and a consolation pint of Ben & Jerry��s. She passes out on the couch, but when she wakes up, she��s back home in her own bed��and it��s Valentine��s Day all over again. And the next day? Another nightmare V-Day.

Emilie is stuck in some sort of time loop nightmare that she can��t wake up from as she re-watches her boyfriend, Josh, cheat on her day after day. In addition to Josh��s recurring infidelity, Emilie can��t get away from the enigmatic Nick, who she keeps running into��sometimes literally��in unfortunate ways.

How many days can one girl passively watch her life go up in flames? And when something good starts to come out of these terrible days, what happens when the universe stops doling out do-overs?]]> 304 Lynn Painter felicitybateson 0 romance 3.92 2022
author: Lynn Painter
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 3.92
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rating: 0
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]]> 59571699 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesis��with explosive results.

Bee K?nigswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project - a literal dream come true - Marie would accept without hesitation. Duh. But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward.

Sure, Levi is attractive in a tall, dark, and piercing-eyes kind of way. But Levi made his feelings toward Bee very clear in grad school - archenemies work best employed in their own galaxies far, far away.

But when her equipment starts to go missing and the staff ignore her, Bee could swear she sees Levi softening into an ally, backing her plays, seconding her ideas... devouring her with those eyes. The possibilities have all her neurons firing.

But when it comes time to actually make a move and put her heart on the line, there's only one question that matters: What will Bee K?nigswasser do?]]> 368 Ali Hazelwood 1408725789 felicitybateson 0 romance 3.88 2022
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]]> 49259788
Unfortunately, Meredith's longtime boyfriend unexpectedly dumped her two weeks before the wedding, leaving her dateless. Luckily, she has the perfect distraction. Her family has a tradition of playing the ultimate game of Assassin every summer, and this year it will take place during the week of wedding festivities.

But her target just happens to be a very cute groomsman. She's determined to not let herself get distracted, not let herself be lost in another doomed relationship. But as the week progresses, she can't help falling for him, which may cost her not only the game, but also her heart.

Meredith's family's annual game of assassin at Martha's Vineyard during a summer wedding is the perfect chance to honor her sister's legacy, and finally join the world again. But when she forms an alliance with a cute groomsman, she's at risk of losing both the game�� and her heart.]]> 359 K.L. Walther 1728210291 felicitybateson 0 romance 3.88 2021
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]]> 30256248
When Autumn Collins finds herself accidentally locked in the library for an entire weekend, she doesn't think things could get any worse. But that's before she realizes that Dax Miller is locked in with her.

Autumn doesn't know much about Dax except that he's trouble. Between the rumors about the fight he was in (and that brief stint in juvie that followed it) and his reputation as a loner, he's not exactly the ideal person to be stuck with. Still, she just keeps reminding herself that it is only a matter of time before Jeff, her almost-boyfriend, realizes he left her in the library and comes to rescue her.

Only he doesn't come. No one does.

Instead it becomes clear that Autumn is going to have to spend the next couple of days living off vending-machine food and making conversation with a boy who clearly wants nothing to do with her. Except there is more to Dax than meets the eye.

As he and Autumn at first grudgingly, and then not so grudgingly, open up to each other, Autumn is struck by their surprising connection. But can their feelings for each other survive once the weekend is over and Autumn's old life, and old love interest, threaten to pull her from Dax's side?]]> 346 Kasie West 0062455869 felicitybateson 0 romance 3.86 2017
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name: felicitybateson
average rating: 3.86
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]]> 54985743 Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.

Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She��s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart��she��s in New York City and he��s in their small hometown��but every summer for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.

Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven��t spoken since.

Poppy has everything she should want, but she��s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows without a doubt it was on that ill-fated final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together��lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.

Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?]]> 364 Emily Henry 1984806750 felicitybateson 0 romance 3.84 2021
author: Emily Henry
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]]> 58857822 Opposites attract in this nerdy YA romance from the NYT best-selling author of The Atlas Six!

A Mathical Book Prize Honor Book

"It��s rom-com perfection."��Adiba Jaigirdar, author of The Henna Wars

Bel doesn't want to think about the future. College apps? You��re funny. Extracurriculars? Not a chance. Joining a robotics club filled with boys who ignore her or--even worse--constantly ask if she needs help? Please, anything but that. But when she accidentally reveals a talent for engineering in class, she has no choice. Enter Mateo Luna, the handsome captain of the club.

Teo instantly recognizes Bel's talent. He needs her on the team. And not just because he can't stop thinking about the tiny dusting of freckles around her eyes, or how she got him hooked on Taylor Swift--it's because Bel sees him. She challenges him. But when they seriously start butting heads, Bel wonders: Is there really room for a girl like her in STEM?

In her YA debut, Alexene Farol Follmuth, author of The Atlas Six (under the penname Olivie Blake), explores both the challenges girls of color face in STEM and the vulnerability of first love with unfailing wit and honesty. Told from dual points of view, My Mechanical Romance is not only swoonworthy--it's downright empowering.

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
A Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers Nominee
A Massachusetts Teen Choice Book Award Nominee]]> 272 Alexene Farol Follmuth 0823450104 felicitybateson 0 romance 3.84 2022
author: Alexene Farol Follmuth
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 3.84
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]]> 60114057 From the author of the 카지노싸이트 Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas Mart��n, who are forced to share a New York apartment.

Rosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. She hasn��t told her family and now has terrible writer��s block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. Luckily she has her best friend Lina��s spare key while she��s out of town. But Rosie doesn��t know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking��for lack of a better word��on Instagram for the last few months. Lucas seems intent on coming to her rescue like a Spanish knight in shining armor. Only this one strolls around the place in a towel, has a distracting grin, and an irresistible accent. Oh, and he cooks.

Lucas offers to let Rosie stay with him, at least until she can find some affordable temporary housing. And then he proposes an outrageous experiment to bring back her literary muse and meet her deadline: He��ll take her on a series of experimental dates meant to jump-start her romantic inspiration. Rosie has nothing to lose. Her silly, online crush is totally under control��but Lucas��s time in New York has an expiration date, and six weeks may not be enough, for either her or her deadline.]]> 400 Elena Armas 1668002779 felicitybateson 0 romance 3.78 2022
author: Elena Armas
name: felicitybateson
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]]> 28686840 every possibility life has to offer. In that moment, I know the part I want to play here at MVB High. I want to be the girl who can do anything.?

Everyone thinks they know Jack Masselin, too. Yes, he's got swagger, but he's also mastered the impossible art of giving people what they want, of fitting in. What no one knows is that Jack has a newly acquired secret: he can't recognize faces. Even his own brothers are strangers to him. He's the guy who can re-engineer and rebuild anything, but he can't understand what's going on with the inner workings of his brain. So he tells himself to play it cool: Be charming. Be hilarious. Don't get too close to anyone.

Until he meets Libby. When the two get tangled up in a cruel high school game��which lands them in group counseling and community service��Libby and Jack are both pissed, and then surprised. Because the more time they spend together, the less alone they feel. Because sometimes when you meet someone, it changes the world, theirs and yours.]]> 391 Jennifer Niven 0385755929 felicitybateson 0 romance 3.66 2016
author: Jennifer Niven
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 3.66
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]]> 34564400
A clever, deconstructed rom-com that proves that in real life ��girl meets boy�� doesn't always mean ��happily ever after�� . . . or does it? At turns funny, feminist, and achingly real, this read is perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella, Patrick Ness, and Julie Buxbaum.]]> 410 Holly Bourne 1474921329 felicitybateson 0 romance 3.75 2017
author: Holly Bourne
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> 58100280 Is it ever too late to leave the friend-zone?

Hi, my name is Bree Camden, and I��m hopelessly in love with my best friend and star quarterback Nathan Donelson (so is half of America, judging by the tabloids and how much the guy dates). The first step is admitting, right? Except, I can never admit it to him because he clearly doesn��t see me that way, and the last thing I want is for things to get weird between us.

Nothing but good old-fashioned, no-touching-the-sexiest-man-alive, platonic friendship for us! Everything is exactly how I like it! Yes. Good. (I��m not crying, I��m just peeling an onion.)

Our friendship is going swimmingly until I accidentally spill my beans to a reporter over too much tequila, and now the world seems to think me and Nathan belong together. Oh, and did I mention we have to date publicly for three weeks until after the Super Bowl because we signed a contract with...oops, forgot I can��t tell anyone about that!

Bottom line is, now my best friend is smudging all the lines and acting very un-platonic, and I��m just trying to keep my body from bursting into flames every time he touches me.

How am I going to make it through three weeks of fake dating Nathan without anything changing between us? Especially when it almost-sort-a-kinda seems like he��s fighting for a completely different outcome?

Send help.
XO Bree]]> 306 Sarah Adams felicitybateson 0 romance 3.70 2021
author: Sarah Adams
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> 10507293
But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition for a crown she doesn't want. Living in a palace that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks.

Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she's made for herself��and realizes that the life she's always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined.]]> 336 Kiera Cass 0062059939 felicitybateson 0 dystopian, fantasy, romance 4.07 2012
author: Kiera Cass
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2012
rating: 0
read at: 2023/03/16
date added: 2025/06/15
shelves: dystopian, fantasy, romance
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]]> 16268988 184 Io Sakisaka 4088468694 felicitybateson 0 manga-manhwa 4.37 2012
author: Io Sakisaka
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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Episodes 57-68]]> 256 Namsoo felicitybateson 0 manga-manhwa 4.48 2020
author: Namsoo
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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Episodes 44-56]]> 240 Namsoo felicitybateson 0 manga-manhwa 4.48 2020
author: Namsoo
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/06/14
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]]> 60865591 ???? ???? ???? ??? ???!

???? ?? ??? ???? ??? ??. ??, ??? MT? ?? ??! ??? ??? ?? ��M*???�� ??? ???? ???, ??? ???? ??? ????. M*???? ?? ?? ??? ?? ?? ? ??? ??. ???? ?? ?? ???? ???? ????? ??, ??? ��?????��? ????? ???.
??? ??? ?? ??? ?? ?????, ???? ?? ?? ?? ??? ???, ?? ???. ?? ??? ? ?? ?? ?? ???? ??. ???? ??? ???? ??? ????? ?????����.

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Episodes 29-43]]> 256 Namsoo felicitybateson 0 manga-manhwa 4.43 2019
author: Namsoo
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at: 2025/06/13
date added: 2025/06/14
shelves: manga-manhwa
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]]> 60865573 ???? ???? ???? ??? ???!

???? ??! ???? ???? ?? ?? ???! ???? ??, ??? ?? ??? ???? ?? ??, ??? ??? ???? ??? ???? ??. ?? ????? ?? ??? ?? ?? ???? ??? ? ??? ?????, ??? ???? ???? ???. ?? ?? ??? ????? ???? ??? ???? ???? ???? ??? ?? ?? ??? ??? ?? ??? ???? ????? ???? ???.
??, ??? ? ?? ???? ????? ???? ??? ??. ??? ???? ???? ????? ???? ?? ??? ?? ????? ?? ???. ??, ???? ???? ??? ??! ??? ?????? ??? ??? ? ??? ?? ??����? ???? ??? ?? ????? ????? ?? ? ?? ?? ?? ???? ? ? ??. ??? ??? ??? ?? ?? ??? ????!

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Episodes 13-28]]> 250 Namsoo felicitybateson 0 manga-manhwa 4.45 2019
author: Namsoo
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 4.45
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> 60865556 ???? ???? ???? ??? ???!

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Episodes 1-12]]> 260 Namsoo felicitybateson 0 manga-manhwa 4.42 2019
author: Namsoo
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/06/14
shelves: manga-manhwa
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]]> 60865617 ??, ??, ??. ??? ??? ?? ??? ????

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Episodes 69-83]]> 256 Namsoo felicitybateson 0 manga-manhwa 4.48 2020
author: Namsoo
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> 15848107 96 Robert Louis Stevenson felicitybateson 0 3.87 1886
author: Robert Louis Stevenson
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1886
rating: 0
read at: 2025/06/12
date added: 2025/06/12
shelves: fantasy, autumn-reads, yearning
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]]> 235854914 I Hope This Doesn't Find You when Sadie's email drafts were accidentally sent out. Their story continues in I Hope This Finds You novella featuring Sadie's and Julius's POVs!]]> 73 Ann Liang felicitybateson 0 to-read 4.29 2025
author: Ann Liang
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 4.29
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]]> 60759266 massive secret to keep.

Eliza made her essay up. She��s never been in a relationship before, let alone in love. All good writing is lying, right?

Desperate to hide the truth, Eliza strikes a deal with the famous actor in her class, the charming but aloof Caz Song. She��ll help him write his college applications if he poses as her boyfriend. Caz is a dream boyfriend -- he passes handwritten notes to her in class, makes her little sister laugh, and takes her out on motorcycle rides to the best snack stalls around the city.

But when her relationship with Caz starts feeling a little too convincing, all of Eliza��s carefully laid plans are threatened. Can she still follow her dreams if it means breaking her own heart?

Get ready to fall in love in this hilarious romcom about a girl who begins a fake relationship with the famous actor in her class, perfect for fans of Meg Cabot and Jenny Han.]]> 352 Ann Liang 1338827111 felicitybateson 0 to-read 4.03 2023
author: Ann Liang
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 4.03
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]]> 16299
"Ten little boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine. Nine little boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight. Eight little boys traveling in Devon; One said he'd stay there then there were seven. Seven little boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in half and then there were six. Six little boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were five. Five little boys going in for law; One got in Chancery and then there were four. Four little boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three. Three little boys walking in the zoo; A big bear hugged one and then there were two. Two little boys sitting in the sun; One got frizzled up and then there was one. One little boy left all alone; He went out and hanged himself and then there were none."

When they realize that murders are occurring as described in the rhyme, terror mounts. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. Who has choreographed this dastardly scheme? And who will be left to tell the tale? Only the dead are above suspicion.]]> 264 Agatha Christie 0312330871 felicitybateson 0 to-read 4.27 1939
author: Agatha Christie
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1939
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]]> 1625 Twelfth Night plays with love and power. The Countess Olivia, a woman with her own household, attracts Duke (or Count) Orsino. Two other would-be suitors are her pretentious steward, Malvolio, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek.

Onto this scene arrive the twins Viola and Sebastian; caught in a shipwreck, each thinks the other has drowned. Viola disguises herself as a male page and enters Orsino��s service. Orsino sends her as his envoy to Olivia��only to have Olivia fall in love with the messenger. The play complicates, then wonderfully untangles, these relationships.]]> 272 William Shakespeare 0743482778 felicitybateson 0 spring-reads 3.97 1602
author: William Shakespeare
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1602
rating: 0
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]]> 23437156 Alternate cover of ISBN 9781627792127

Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price��and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can��t pull it off alone...

A convict with a thirst for revenge

A sharpshooter who can��t walk away from a wager

A runaway with a privileged past

A spy known as the Wraith

A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums

A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes

Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz��s crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction��if they don��t kill each other first.]]> 480 Leigh Bardugo 1627792120 felicitybateson 0 4.47 2015
author: Leigh Bardugo
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at: 2023/03/05
date added: 2025/06/11
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]]> 56554281 Clashing empires, forbidden romance, and a long-forgotten queen destined to save her people��Tahereh Mafi��s first in an epic, romantic trilogy inspired by Persian mythology.

To all the world, Alizeh is a disposable servant, not the long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom forced to hide in plain sight.

The crown prince, Kamran, has heard the prophecies foretelling the death of his king. But he could never have imagined that the servant girl with the strange eyes, the girl he can��t put out of his mind, would one day soon uproot his kingdom��and the world.

Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, Tomi Adeyemi, and Sabaa Tahir, this is the explosive first book in a new fantasy trilogy from the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-nominated author Tahereh Mafi.]]> 512 Tahereh Mafi 0062972464 felicitybateson 0 summer-reads, favorites 3.94 2022
author: Tahereh Mafi
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/06/11
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]]> 42771754 All's fair in love and anarchy...

The epic conclusion to Marissa Meyer's thrilling Renegades Trilogy finds Nova and Adrian fighting to keep their identities secret. While the battle rages on between their alter egos and their allies, there is a darker threat shrouding Gatlon City.

The Renegades' worst enemy is back among them, threatening to reclaim Gatlon City. Nova and Adrian must brave lies and betrayal to protect those they love. Their greatest fears are about to come to life, and unless they can bridge the divide between heroes and villains, they stand to lose everything. Including each other.

Intrigue and action will leave readers on edge until the final, shocking secrets are revealed.]]> 549 Marissa Meyer 1250078385 felicitybateson 5 4.37 2019
author: Marissa Meyer
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2025/05/26
date added: 2025/06/11
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]]> 35425827
Time is running out.
Together, they can save the world.
But they each other's worst nightmare.

In Renegades, Nova and Adrian (aka Insomnia and Sketch) fought the battle of their lives against the Anarchist known as the Detonator. It was a short-lived victory.

The Anarchists still have a secret weapon, one that Nova believes will protect her. The Renegades also have a strategy for overpowering the Anarchists, but both Nova and Adrian understand that it could mean the end of Gatlon City - and the world - as they know it.]]> 560 Marissa Meyer 1250311446 felicitybateson 0 fantasy, favorites 4.24 2018
author: Marissa Meyer
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at: 2025/05/22
date added: 2025/06/11
shelves: fantasy, favorites
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]]> 590272 A nightingale overhears a student complaining that his professor's daughter will not dance with him, as he is unable to give her a red rose. The nightingale visits all the rose-trees in the garden, and one of the white roses tell her that there's a way to produce a red rose, but only if the nightingale is prepared to sing the sweetest song for the rose all night, and sacrifice her life to do so.]]> 18 Oscar Wilde 1430439866 felicitybateson 5 4.30 1888
author: Oscar Wilde
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1888
rating: 5
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date added: 2025/06/11
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]]> 28421168 Secret Identities. Extraordinary Powers. She wants vengeance. He wants justice.

The Renegades are a syndicate of prodigies �� humans with extraordinary abilities �� who emerged from the ruins of a crumbled society and established peace and order where chaos reigned. As champions of justice, they remain a symbol of hope and courage to everyone... except the villains they once overthrew.

Nova has a reason to hate the Renegades, and she is on a mission for vengeance. As she gets closer to her target, she meets Adrian, a Renegade boy who believes in justice �� and in Nova. But Nova's allegiance is to a villain who has the power to end them both.]]> 552 Marissa Meyer 1250044669 felicitybateson 0 4.12 2017
author: Marissa Meyer
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at: 2025/05/16
date added: 2025/06/11
shelves: dystopian, yearning, fantasy, favorites
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]]> 60683957 done with chess. Every move counts nowadays. After the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory's focus is on her mom, her sisters, and the dead-end job that keeps the lights on. That is, until she begrudgingly agrees to play in one last charity tournament and inadvertently wipes the board with notorious "Kingkiller" Nolan Sawyer: current world champion and reigning bad boy of chess.

Nolan's loss to an unknown rook-ie shocks everyone��especially Mallory. What's even more confusing? His desire to cross pawns again. What kind of gambit is Nolan playing? The smart move would be to walk away. Resign. Game over. But Mallory's victory opens the door to sorely needed cash prizes and, despite everything, she can't help feeling drawn to the enigmatic strategist....

As she rockets up the ranks, Mallory struggles to keep her family safely separated from the game that wrecked it in the first place. And as her love for the sport she so desperately wanted to hate begins to rekindle, Mallory quickly realizes that the games aren't only on the board, the spotlight is hotter than she imagined, and the competition can be fierce(-ly attractive. And intelligent...and infuriating...)]]> 347 Ali Hazelwood 0593619919 felicitybateson 0 to-read 3.93 2023
author: Ali Hazelwood
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> 127280062 Torn apart by war. Reunited by love?

Two weeks have passed since Iris returned home bruised and heartbroken from the front, but the war is far from over.

Roman is missing, lost behind enemy lines, with no memory of his past, or Iris. Hoping his memories return, he begins to write again �C but this time for the enemy.

When a strange letter arrives through his wardrobe door, he strikes up a correspondence with a penpal who seems at once mysterious�� and strangely familiar.

As their connection deepens, the two of them will risk their very hearts and futures to change the tides of the war.]]> 420 Rebecca Ross 1250857457 felicitybateson 0 to-read 3.98 2023
author: Rebecca Ross
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> 65916344 Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King��s most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town.

��Sometimes the universe throws you a rope.�� �� BILL HODGES

Stephen King��s Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly��s gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges��s partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In King��s new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries.

When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl��s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down.

Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harboring an unholy secret in the basement of their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie��s disappearance. And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to: they are savvy, they are patient, and they are ruthless.

Holly must summon all her formidable talents to outthink and outmaneuver the shockingly twisted professors in this chilling new masterwork from Stephen King.]]> 449 Stephen King 1668016133 felicitybateson 0 to-read 4.01 2023
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name: felicitybateson
average rating: 4.01
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]]> 6334 288 Kazuo Ishiguro 1400078776 felicitybateson 0 to-read 3.85 2005
author: Kazuo Ishiguro
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2005
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]]> 43208407 ��For a very long time, the days went by, each just like the day before, then I began to think, and everything changed��

Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before.

As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.]]> 188 Jacqueline Harpman 152911179X felicitybateson 0 to-read 4.23 1995
author: Jacqueline Harpman
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 4.23
book published: 1995
rating: 0
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]]> 58884736
"A story of love and hope as interweaving characters display: how all moments, big and small, can measure a life. If you want joy, love, romance, and hope��read with us." ��Jenna Bush Hager
A luminous, spirit-lifting blockbuster that asks: would you choose to find out the length of your life?

Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice.

It seems like any other day. You wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and head out.

But today, when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. The contents of this mysterious box tells you the exact number of years you will live.

From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. In an instant, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy. Where did these boxes come from? What do they mean? Is there truth to what they promise?

As society comes together and pulls apart, everyone faces the same shocking choice: Do they wish to know how long they��ll live? And, if so, what will they do with that knowledge?

The Measure charts the dawn of this new world through an unforgettable cast of characters whose decisions and fates interweave with one another: best friends whose dreams are forever entwined, pen pals finding refuge in the unknown, a couple who thought they didn��t have to rush, a doctor who cannot save himself, and a politician whose box becomes the powder keg that ultimately changes everything.

Enchanting and deeply uplifting, The Measure is an ambitious, invigorating story about family, friendship, hope, and destiny that encourages us to live life to the fullest.]]> 353 Nikki Erlick 0063204207 felicitybateson 0 to-read 3.96 2022
author: Nikki Erlick
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 43263680
Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale��s secret societies. These eight windowless ��tombs�� are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood��s biggest players. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive.]]> 461 Leigh Bardugo 1250313074 felicitybateson 0 to-read 4.00 2019
author: Leigh Bardugo
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2019
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]]> 65137920 The Keeper of Stories meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets.

��The thing about books,�� she said ��is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of.��

On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found��

For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives.

But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books. And by unlocking the secrets of the shelves, they find themselves transported to a world of wonder�� where nothing is as it seems.]]> 432 Evie Woods 0008609209 felicitybateson 0 to-read 4.02 2023
author: Evie Woods
name: felicitybateson
average rating: 4.02
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]]> 66087062
It��s been a year since June started seeing and hearing things that weren��t there. Faint wind chimes, a voice calling her name, and a mysterious door appearing out of nowhere��the signs of what June always knew was coming. But June is determined to end the curse once and for all, even if she must sacrifice finding love and having a family of her own.

After her grandmother��s death, June discovers a series of cryptic clues regarding her mother��s decades-old disappearance, except they only lead to more questions. But could the door she once assumed was a hallucination be the answer she��s been searching for? The next time it appears, June realizes she can touch it and walk past the threshold. And when she does, she embarks on a journey that will not only change both the past and the future, but also uncover the lingering mysteries of her small town and entangle her heart in an epic star-crossed love.

With The Unmaking of June Farrow, Adrienne Young delivers a brilliant novel of romance, mystery, and a touch of the impossible��a story you will never forget.]]> 320 Adrienne Young 0593598679 felicitybateson 0 to-read 4.12 2023
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]]> 65213543 When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we need isn't always what we seek.

In Bookshops & Bonedust, a prequel to Legends & Lattes, author Travis Baldree takes us on a journey of high fantasy, first loves, and second-hand books.

Viv's career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam's Ravens isn't going as planned.

Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she's packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk��so far from the action that she worries she'll never be able to return to it.

What's a thwarted soldier of fortune to do?

Spending her hours at a beleaguered bookshop in the company of its foul-mouthed proprietor is the last thing Viv would have predicted, but it may be both exactly what she needs and the seed of changes she couldn't possibly imagine.

Still, adventure isn't all that far away. A suspicious traveler in gray, a gnome with a chip on her shoulder, a summer fling, and an improbable number of skeletons prove Murk to be more eventful than Viv could have ever expected.]]> 336 Travis Baldree 1250886104 felicitybateson 0 to-read 4.12 2023
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]]> 65213595 A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that can't stay buried and the sinister house that sits at the crossroads of it all.

Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland--and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it��s best to let the uncanny house�Dand its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling�Dgo to rot.

Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but an unexpected job offer might be a chance to get her brother out of Eden. Too quickly, though, Starling House starts to feel dangerously like something she��s never had: a home.

As sinister forces converge on Starling House, Opal and Arthur are going to have to make a dire choice to dig up the buried secrets of the past and confront their own fears, or let Eden be taken over by literal nightmares.

If Opal wants a home, she��ll have to fight for it.]]> 320 Alix E. Harrow 1250799058 felicitybateson 0 to-read 3.76 2023
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]]> 18143977
In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.

From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here]]> 544 Anthony Doerr 1476746583 felicitybateson 0 to-read 4.31 2014
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]]> 58065033 390 Bonnie Garmus felicitybateson 0 to-read 4.23 2022
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]]> 36552920
My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.]]> 289 Ottessa Moshfegh 0525522115 felicitybateson 0 to-read 3.57 2018
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]]> 58784475 In this exhilarating novel, two friends��often in love, but never lovers��come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.

On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.

Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.]]> 401 Gabrielle Zevin 0735243344 felicitybateson 0 to-read 4.12 2022
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]]> 62047984
So what if June edits Athena��s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song��complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? This piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller. That is what June believes, and The New York Times bestseller list agrees.

But June cannot escape Athena��s shadow, and emerging evidence threatens her stolen success. As she races to protect her secret she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.]]> 319 R.F. Kuang 000853277X felicitybateson 0 to-read 3.69 2023
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]]> 35959740
Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts, and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus.

But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from or with the mortals she has come to love.]]> 393 Madeline Miller 0316556343 felicitybateson 0 to-read 4.22 2018
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]]> 16085481
When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home, long drives to explore the island, and quality time with the man she might one day marry. What she doesn't know is that Nick's family home happens to look like a palace, that she'll ride in more private planes than cars, and that with one of Asia's most eligible bachelors on her arm, Rachel might as well have a target on her back.

Initiated into a world of dynastic splendor beyond imagination, Rachel meets Astrid, the It Girl of Singapore society; Eddie, whose family practically lives in the pages of the Hong Kong socialite magazines; and Eleanor, Nick's formidable mother, a woman who has very strong feelings about who her son should��and should not��marry.

Uproarious, addictive, and filled with jaw-dropping opulence, Crazy Rich Asians is an insider's look at the Asian JetSet; a perfect depiction of the clash between old money and new money; between Overseas Chinese and Mainland Chinese; and a fabulous novel about what it means to be young, in love, and gloriously, crazily rich.]]> 403 Kevin Kwan 0385536976 felicitybateson 0 to-read 3.91 2013
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]]> 19288043 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here

Who are you?
What have we done to each other?

These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren't made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone.

So what did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?]]> 415 Gillian Flynn 0307588378 felicitybateson 0 to-read 4.22 2012
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]]> 21787
As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad's recitation, and only the "good parts" reached his ears.

Now Goldman does Dad one better. He's reconstructed the "Good Parts Version" to delight wise kids and wide-eyed grownups everywhere.

What's it about? Fencing. Fighting. True Love. Strong Hate. Harsh Revenge. A Few Giants. Lots of Bad Men. Lots of Good Men. Five or Six Beautiful Women. Beasties Monstrous and Gentle. Some Swell Escapes and Captures. Death, Lies, Truth, Miracles, and a Little Sex.

In short, it's about everything.]]> 429 William Goldman 0345418263 felicitybateson 0 to-read 4.27 1973
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]]> 6555529 (front flap)]]> 173 C.S. Lewis 0061715050 felicitybateson 0 to-read 4.27 1950
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]]> 9266856 The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been a beloved and deeply admired monument to the indestructible nature of the human spirit, read by millions of people and translated into more than fifty-five languages. Doubleday, which published the first English translation of the diary in 1952, now offers a new translation that captures Anne's youthful spirit and restores the original material omitted by Anne's father, Otto -- approximately thirty percent of the diary. The elder Frank excised details about Anne's emerging sexuality, and about the often-stormy relations between Anne and her mother. Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation forces, hid in the back of an Amsterdam office building for two years. This is Anne's record of that time. She was thirteen when the family went into the "Secret Annex," and in these pages, she grows to be a young woman and proves to be an insightful observer of human nature as well. A timeless story discovered by each new generation, The Diary of a Young Girl stands without peer. For young readers and adults, it continues to bring to life this young woman, who for a time survived the worst horrors the modern world had seen -- and who remained triumphantly and heartbreakingly human throughout her ordeal.]]> 351 Anne Frank felicitybateson 0 to-read 4.37 1947
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]]> 157993
Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince, presented here in a stunning new translation with carefully restored artwork. The definitive edition of a worldwide classic, it will capture the hearts of readers of all ages.]]> 96 Antoine de Saint-Exup��ry 0152023984 felicitybateson 0 to-read 4.32 1943
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]]> 172366 176 Jorge Luis Borges 156792123X felicitybateson 0 to-read 4.34 1941
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]]> 374388 Testament of Youth is both a record of what she lived through and an elegy for a vanished generation. Hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as a book that helped ��both form and define the mood of its time,�� it speaks to any generation that has been irrevocably changed by war.]]> 688 Vera Brittain 0143039237 felicitybateson 0 to-read 4.10 1933
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]]> 15765671 192 Io Sakisaka 408846818X felicitybateson 0 manga-manhwa 4.42 2012
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]]> 13614440 184 Io Sakisaka 4088467590 felicitybateson 0 manga-manhwa 4.43 2012
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]]> 1621010 A selfish miller proves to be the downfall of his devoted friend and gardener, Hans, even as he benefits from the fruits of Hans��s labour.

]]> 0 Oscar Wilde 0934211108 felicitybateson 0 to-read 3.81 1888
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]]> 2298136 "The Young King"
"The Birthday of the Infanta"
"The Fisherman and his Soul"
"The Star-child"
Readers of all ages will be delighted by these fanciful tales.]]> 104 Oscar Wilde 1420927353 felicitybateson 0 to-read 3.85 1888
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]]> 80339 The Soul of Man under Socialism Oscar Wilde expounds on an anarchist world view. Wilde argues that under capitalism the majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism-are forced, indeed, so to spoil them: instead of realizing their true talents, they waste their time solving the social problems caused by capitalism, without taking their common cause away. Thus, caring people seriously and very sentimentally set themselves to the task of remedying the evils that they see in poverty, but their remedies do not cure the disease: they merely prolong it because, the proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.]]> 48 Oscar Wilde 1419183044 felicitybateson 0 to-read 3.94 1891
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]]> 24874326
Wilde's supremely witty tale of dandies, anarchists and a murderous prophecy in London high society.
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). Wilde's works available in Penguin Classics are De Profundis and Other Prison Writings, The Complete Short Fiction, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays, The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose.]]> 50 Oscar Wilde 0141397780 felicitybateson 0 to-read 3.85 1963
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]]> 13747794 The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in audio. This volume restores material, including instances of graphic homosexual content, removed by the novel's first editor, who feared it would be "offensive" to Victorians.]]> 260 Oscar Wilde 0674066316 felicitybateson 0 to-read 4.32 1890
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]]> 122648 96 Oscar Wilde 0140622454 felicitybateson 0 to-read 3.86 1893
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]]> 67762 Salom�� was translated into English by Lord Alfred Douglas, inspired some of Aubrey Beardsley's finest illustrations (long available in a Dover edition), and served as the text (in abridged form) for Strauss' renowned opera of the same name. The play's haunting poetic imagery, biblical cadences, and febrile atmosphere have earned it a reputation as a masterpiece of the Aesthetic movement of fin de si��cle England. The present volume reprints the complete text of the first English edition (1894), including ?A Note on Salom���� by Robert Ross. It will be welcomed by students and lovers of literature and drama, and any admirer of the incomparable Oscar Wilde.

Languages: French, English]]> 64 Oscar Wilde 0486421279 felicitybateson 0 to-read 3.69 1891
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]]> 29081916 'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself'

Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius.

One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.]]> 60 Oscar Wilde felicitybateson 0 to-read 3.97 2016
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]]> 122649 70 Oscar Wilde 014062399X felicitybateson 0 to-read 3.91 1892
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]]> 5296 Sooner or later, Wilde notes, we shall all have to pay for what we do. But he adds that, No one should be entirely judged by their past.Together with The Importance of Being Earnest, it is often considered Wilde's dramatic masterpiece. After Earnest, it is his most popularly produced play"]]> 78 Oscar Wilde 048641423X felicitybateson 0 to-read 4.01 1893
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]]> 45685 126 Oscar Wilde felicitybateson 0 to-read 3.90 1887
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]]> 92303
Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gwendolen as Ernest while Algernon has also posed as Ernest to win the heart of Jack's ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack's country home on the same weekend the "rivals" to fight for Ernest's undivided attention and the "Ernests" to claim their beloveds pandemonium breaks loose. Only a senile nursemaid and an old, discarded hand-bag can save the day!

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader appreciate Wilde's wry wit and elaborate plot twists.]]> 89 Oscar Wilde 158049580X felicitybateson 0 to-read 4.17 1895
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]]> 13571762 �����h��Ʒ�������ϻ饤����Ǥ������]]> 208 Io Sakisaka 4088467310 felicitybateson 0 manga-manhwa 4.39 2011
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]]> 13571760 184 Io Sakisaka 408846690X felicitybateson 0 manga-manhwa 4.39 2011
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]]> 203647801 Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the mysterious caf�� where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests:

- The father who could not allow his daughter to get married
- A woman who couldn't give Valentine's Day chocolates to her loved one
- A boy who wants to show his smile to his divorced parents
- A wife holding a child with no name . . .

They must follow the caf��'s strict rules, however, and come back to the present before their coffee goes cold. Another moving and heartwarming tale from Toshikazu Kawaguchi, in Before We Forget Kindness our new visitors wish to go back into their past to move on their present, finding closure and comfort so they can embark on a beautiful future.]]> 240 Toshikazu Kawaguchi 1335915281 felicitybateson 0 to-read 3.84 2023
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]]> 203578730 Her beauty hides a deadly purpose.

Xishi��s beauty is seen as a blessing to the villagers of Yue��convinced that the best fate for a girl is to marry well and support her family. When Xishi draws the attention of the famous young military advisor, Fanli, he presents her with a rare opportunity: to use her beauty as a weapon. One that could topple the rival neighboring kingdom of Wu, improve the lives of her people, and avenge her sister��s murder. All she has to do is infiltrate the enemy palace as a spy, seduce their immoral king, and weaken them from within.

Trained by Fanli in everything from classical instruments to concealing emotion, Xishi hones her beauty into the perfect blade. But she knows Fanli can see through every deception she masters, the attraction between them burning away any falsehoods.

Once inside the enemy palace, Xishi finds herself under the hungry gaze of the king��s advisors while the king himself shows her great affection. Despite his gentleness, a brutality lurks and Xishi knows she can never let her guard down. But the higher Xishi climbs in the Wu court, the farther she and Fanli have to fall��and if she is unmasked as a traitor, she will bring both kingdoms down.]]> 325 Ann Liang 1250289467 felicitybateson 0 to-read 3.83 2024
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]]> 213618272
Elias Westbrook, a newly drafted hockey player for the Toronto Thunder, is facing the challenges of fame and media scrutiny. With a growing fan base and too many expectations on his shoulders, he��s struggling to make his first career goal. The tabloids are reporting on his every move, including which woman he was last seen with, but all he wants to do is escape the spotlight.

Enter from stage left Sage Beaumont, an aspiring ballerina with dreams of joining the Aurora Ballet Theatre, but her lack of popularity online leaves her at a major disadvantage for securing the lead role. When Sage finds herself with the perfect opportunity to make her dreams come true by fake dating Elias, she takes her shot.

Soon enough, the flimsy fake-dating rules they set in place fall away in the face of their sizzling connection. But before things spiral out of control, Sage and Elias will have to decide if they��re willing to take the leap together or if they'll call it quits.]]> 338 Bal Khabra 0593818288 felicitybateson 0 to-read 3.80 2025
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]]> 13571757 �����h��Ʒ�������ϥ饤�� unwritten]]> 184 Io Sakisaka 4088466470 felicitybateson 0 manga-manhwa 4.36 2011
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]]> 217045791 For readers of All the Light We Cannot See and In Memoriam, a moving and deeply humane story about a trans man who must relinquish the freedoms of prewar Berlin to survive first the Nazis then the Allies while protecting the ones he loves.

In 1932 Berlin, Bertie, a trans man, and his friends spend carefree nights at the Eldorado Club, the epicenter of Berlin's thriving queer community. An employee of the renowned Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld at the Institute of Sexual 카지노싸이트, Bertie works to improve queer rights in Germany and beyond, but everything changes when Hitler rises to power. The institute is raided, the Eldorado is shuttered, and queer people are rounded up. Bertie barely escapes with his girlfriend, Sofie, to a nearby farm. There they take on the identities of an elderly couple and live for more than a decade in isolation.

In the final days of the war, with their freedom in sight, Bertie and Sofie find a young trans man collapsed on their property, still dressed in Holocaust prison clothes. They vow to protect him��not from the Nazis, but from the Allied forces who are arresting queer prisoners while liberating the rest of the country. Ironically, as the Allies' vise grip closes on Bertie and his family, their only salvation becomes fleeing to the United States.

Brimming with hope, resilience, and the enduring power of community, The Lilac People tells an extraordinary story inspired by real events and recovers an occluded moment of trans history.]]> 320 Milo Todd 1640097031 felicitybateson 0 to-read 4.34
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The last thing Eren remembers before blacking out, a Titan had bitten off his arm and leg and was getting ready to eat him alive. Much to his surprise he wakes up without a scratch on him, with a crowd of angry soldiers screaming for his blood. What strange new power has he awakened, and what will happen when the boy devoted to destroying the Titans becomes one himself?

Includes special extras after the story!]]> 208 Hajime Isayama 1612620264 felicitybateson 0 to-read, manga-manhwa 4.46 2010
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The Colossal Titan has breached humanity��s first line of defense, Wall Maria. Mikasa, the 104th Training Corps�� ace and Eren��s best friend, may be the only one capable of defeating them, but beneath her calm exterior lurks a dark past. When all looks lost, a new Titan appears and begins to slaughter its fellow Titans. Could this new monster be a blessing in disguise, or is the truth something much more sinister?

This volume of Attack on Titan includes special extras after the story!


Chapters list :
5. A Dull Glow in the Midst of Despair
6. The World that the Girl Saw
7. Small Blade
8. Roar
9. The Beating of a Heart Can Be Heard]]> 189 Hajime Isayama 1612620256 felicitybateson 0 to-read, manga-manhwa 4.52 2010
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For the past century, what's left of mankind has hidden in a giant, three-walled city, trapped in fear of the bizarre, giant humanoids known as the Titans. Little is known about where they came from or why they are bent on consuming humankind, but the sudden appearance of an enormous Titan is about to change everything...]]> 193 Hajime Isayama 1612620248 felicitybateson 0 to-read, manga-manhwa 4.48 2010
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